Navigating through folders in ownCloud is as simple as clicking on a folder to open it and using the back button on your browser to move to a previous level.
This section walks you through how to navigate the ownCloud UI.

You can select one or more files or folders by hovering over them (as in the image below) and clicking on their checkboxes.
To select all files in the current directory, click on the checkbox located at the
top of the files listing.

When you select multiple files, you can delete all of them, or download them as
a ZIP file by using the Delete or Download buttons that appear at the
top.

Note

If the Download button is not visible, the administrator has
disabled this feature.

You can play videos in ownCloud with the Video Player app, by clicking once on
the file. Please note, video streaming by the native ownCloud video player
depends on your Web browser and the video’s format.

The Settings gear icon, in the lower left-hand corner of the ownCloud window, allows you to show or hide hidden files in your ownCloud Web interface.
These are also called dotfiles, because they are prefixed with a dot, e.g. .mailfile.

The dot tells your operating system to hide these files in your file browsers, unless you choose to display them.
Usually, these are configuration files, so having the option to hide them reduces clutter.

ownCloud can display thumbnail previews for images, MP3 covers, and text files, if this is enabled by your server administrator.
You can also display uncompressed text, OpenDocument, videos, and image files in the ownCloud embedded viewers by clicking on the file name.
There may be other file types you can preview if your ownCloud administrator has enabled them.
If ownCloud cannot display a file, it will start a download process and downloads the file to your computer.